Yes mom, another dog.

Yesterday late afternoon we found a dog that followed us home in the park. He didn’t have any ID or collar and he wasn’t neutered. He was a big lovable white Labrador retriever that looked like he hadn’t eaten in 5 days. You could see his ribs and when you put your hand in them, your fingers went all the way inside. We lead him in our back yard and gave him water from the hose. We then fed him some free "In case of emergency" Costco dog food and he ate it all- two whole bags plus a bunch of small sample bags from the convention. He was a starving beast! We put out two disposable bowls for water and in seconds it was gone. Then we got a big dollar store bowl that we never used and filled that up- it was gone in 30 minutes!!!! My golly I have never seen a dog so starved. after eating he slept...in a hole he dug over where a broken (from he lawnmower) sprinkler head was (yeah, we didn’t really care. we are looking our house anyway and why should the next people benefit from our dads hard work and money.. and he didn’t ruin the actual sprinkler, he just dug to it because it was cooler there from the water, so no real damage done). Anyway, this morning at 11 he woke up and let the whole neighborhood know that he was hungry by howling. I think that he doesn’t normally do that, just the whole "I’m in a strangers home and whenever I make noise they come outside and check up on me" attitude. yesterday we put up "found dog" fliers on light poles and tried calling animal service numbers but they were either all closed or didn’t accept anymore strays because they were full. This afternoon, however, one of the places we did call said they would take the dog in for free, but after 7 days they will neuter him and put him up for adoption. So we took him there (in Julie’s car) and they are now taking care of him. While Tony signed paperwork, Buddy was entertaining everyone by doing his tricks and their (and everyone who sees him) favorite trick- saying "Ma, Ma". The gal there gave us a flier for a dog show in October and she really thought that buddy could win. She said that the last 2 years in a row went to the same dog- a cattle herder. We had a cattle dog once about 2 months after we got buddy and those things are HUGE!! They are good dogs, but I don’t think that they are capable of speech and fun little tricks.